An Open-IoT Approach on Elevator for Enabling Autonomous Robotic Vertical Mobility

Abstract

Manipulating elevator is essential to service a robot to move in multiple floors inside the building. A well-constructed robotic navigation system in elevator environment is required to insure the safety, trust and robustness. So far, earlier works have concentrated on the optimization of the stand-alone robots, which causing heavy computation overhead, limited applicability and so on. Our proposal is a lightweight open-IoT solution aiming to ensure the applicability of elevator-using for various robots. Further, it reduces the computation complexity of the robot side as well. In this paper, the IoT-enabling development on elevator, communication flow definitions and implementation of this proposal are introduced.